An alien on my shoulder

I got home the other night after a hard day at the RUC and poured myself a wine. I looked down and in front of me on the outside table was none other than Tic Tac the gecko! I recognised him immediately (because he’d been so up-close-and-personal on my nose when we first met). I don’t know how he got up on the table (right in front of where I normally sit), but he just hung out there and watched me for a while. I asked him if he was hungry and tried to give him some of my tomato sandwich, but he wouldn’t eat it (go figure).

So I went inside to get the camera to take some pics of him and as I walked into the kitchen something tapped me on the shoulder. I turned to see alien eyes. I squealed and flicked the thing away. Strangely enough it came back and landed on me twice more so I managed to get some pics of it.

WARNING: IF CREEPY CRAWLIES SCARE YOU – RUN AWAY NOW!

What do you think of those ‘alien’ eyes? No wonder it scared the crap life out of me when I saw it on my shoulder. (PS – that hairy hand isn’t mine) 😉

What’s happening here? Am I turning into some kind of weird creature magnet?

In the past few weeks I’ve been inundated with creatures. A few of you have suggested that it’s because I need to get back to my WIP In the Company of Beasts, so I’m setting some time aside this week to get back into writing (before I’m carried off to some kind of nest somewhere!)

I can picture it now–you sitting there writing In the Company of Beasts while thousands of animals lurk around you like Dr. Doolittle or Ace Ventura. Sounds like you got a plethora of muses. {{{hugs]}} Kozo

Well if he (is it a he?) gets you to carve out a decent slice of time to write again then he’s my new best friend…as long as he’s just a photo on a screen! Seriously weird looking, but harmless I guess. You’d better get down to satisfying that impatient muse! The next creature might not be so…pink?!

LOL – his eyes are VERY pink! What a weird looking thing he is. Not harmless to other insects because he eats them, so I’m glad he’s relatively small and doesn’t feast on humans! I think he may get a start in one of my stories 😀

OH holy crap! I get it now…the saying curiosity killed the cat…i saw the alert message and I said to myself i shouldn’t scroll anymore , don’t do it. But I was so darn curious i kept scrolling…and nearly fell out of my chair screaming.

when I was a kid I used to play with praying mantis bugs. I thought they were fascinating. I think though that the little gecko is going to be fine, unless he eats the mantis. I don’t think the mantis will eat the gecko, he’s more into littlier bugs. If the gecko sticks around and grows up he should have a nice snack every time you come around since you attract the bugs. hahaha. 😉

Thank you Dianne, my day is perfect now. Ha,ha,ha,ha! Glad you’re getting back to your writing, although these are hardly what I’d call subtle hints! lol, If you do get carried off to a nest somewhere be sure and bring your camera with! 🙂

It is a pink praying mantis, Amy, and I’ve never seen one like it before. It keeps coming back and wants to land on me all the time (good grief!). I’ll just have to try and talk to it nicely about ‘personal space’ LOL 😀

You get gecko’s and mantis’ but we aren’t so lucky. We picked up our RV from the shop where it had been for the previous two weeks and what did I find but a mouse freshly caught in one of our traps. Oh dear….. I hope we don’t have to deal with getting rid of a family of mice again this year. Putting Journey into storage leads to unwanted visitors.

But, Diane, we got an offer on our house today. Our hope of going mobile looks like it’s getting closer.

Are you kidding? That alien eats meat? I hope you sleep in a vacuum cuz he’s gonna chow down on you whilst you slumber! That is the creepiest looking bug ever! Must have escaped from the samples secretly brought back from Mars. 😉 Gekko dude better sleep with one eyeball wide open!

I know a few people who LOVE pink things and I’m sure they would love this fella, Maddie. Tic Tac has grown and I’m pretty happy about his progress (there are lots of thing here that can eat him, but he seems to be thriving) 😀

Good grief! Thank you so much for all this info – no wonder it’s so keen to hang around! It just keeps coming back and wanting to sit on me LOL now I know all it wants is a home. You’re amazing for finding all this out. Max is going to be very happy here indeed 😉

I will relocate Tic Tac to the RUC – I haven’t seen a gecko there yet because they haven’t discovered it to settle in yet, so he’ll be the first and probably end up KING OF THE GECKOS there 😉

I’m sorry, Dianne, but I quite like the Mantis. I’ve never seen a pink one before, only green or tan ones here in the states. Do keep Manny away from darling TicTac or he will become his next meal! Thanks for sharing your critters with us. You do like to keep us entertained! 😉

I’ve never seen a pink one before either, Lynda, but someone just told me it is a Giant Asian Mantis and they like being kept as pets (like a cat!) This makes sense now because it won’t leave me alone. I’m making sure Manny stays away from Tic Tac because I’m not sure who will try to eat who 😯

Geckos I can probably handle, but I cannot stand any creatures that can jump or fly. I always have nightmares of them getting into my clothes! That mantis looks absolutely terrifying. Its eyes are definitely alien-like!

That is the strangest looking creature…The other day, while working out in my yard I came across a weird creative also….it looked like a ball of fuzz…white, it was floating in the air…I grabbed it and noticed it was alive and moving around….soooo weird!

Dianne, And RUC has 19 doors, ….. WHY? Do you have some pet doors planned as well? They wouldn’t need to be very large! Now back to the 19 regular sized doors. Are you SERIOUSLY expecting to have company stop by after this post??? hahaha BTW after the gecko post, and my comment I thought about it. I had 5 iguanas posing on me, not geckos. I get my wildlife mixed up! I’m more of a history gal! 🙂

I’ve never seen an iguana and wondered how that guy would have kept geckos in his pocket because they’re fast little things (lol) 😉

I took some pics of a finished door yesterday and must post it (when I get a free second). I’ve got some young guys working on the place at the moment that I call the “Young Guns” wow they are just doing everything so fast and so well! I’m wrapped 😀

Ella Dee just wrote a comment saying this is a Giant Asian Mantis and they are pets (now I understand because this explains why the thing keeps coming back and landing on me!) I had no idea a mantis could be a pet – yikes! How do I train the thing? LOL 😉

Holy smokes woman! You are the bug whisperer…lucky you. That would have scared the heebie jeebies out of me eliciting an interesting bug dance. I am impressed you can keep it together to get all these pictures, they are amazing!

I think some of your creepy crawlers are in my bedroom wall–I awoke to noises that were unsettling and when I turned the light on, they stopped–decided to get up even though it was 4 o clock — I think mine are bigger than yours

LOL! Oh dear, JM – this comment made me laugh very loudly! I love the fact they the aliens sent this as a reconnaissance vehicle thinking, “there’s no way the humans will think this is ‘alien!’ I look SO normal.” HAAAAAAAA 😀 😀 😀

Need to share my reply to Jim’s comment on my blog (if you get a minute, do check it out, it’s outstandingly spirited and witty ;)) ” I admire Dianne (let alone my fascination with lizards ) because parallel to her fiction, on her blog she’s turning into a fairytale what had begun as a tragic row of events – illness, relocation, hurricanes, houses torn down and rebuilt in a minimum time with close to non-existent outside support… And she finds beauty in that, which wold make the most almost bite the dust – and she makes the reader envious not only of her spirit, but even of the challenges she encounters! For what i know, that’s the only way for us to become co-creators, by turning our personal challenges into the Light.” xxxx

Goodness. I’ve just came back from Thailand and seen a lot of amazing things there – but not one like that pink beauty you’ve got there… It is scary, though.
What’s your take on cockroaches and huge orange ants?

I’ve never seen anything like him before either, Christina – he’s a very odd one! 😉
I don’t particularly like cockroaches (especially in my food) and I’ve been bitten by big ants before and it’s never a pleasant experience 😯

Lolll!!!!!! And I loooorve animals. Geckos are cute. Like that @personal things btw you nd the gecko. I could stare at a praying mantis for long as though in a trance. Please, remain a creature magnet and get us more pics and posts. Hehehee.

Hey Dianne, I have been patiently waiting for “In The Company of Beasts” so I’m very happy to hear you are going to be working on it. Thank your little creatures for me for getting you back on the writing job! I wouldn’t want that big eyed flying thing to land on me, but on the other hand (no pun intended) I think it’s kind of cool.

I’ll thank those little creatures! They are pushing me towards writing big time 😀 I would have been okay with this creature only he landed on my shoulder and when I turned all I could see were those bug eyes – yikes! 😯